Dispatch vs Response - What's the difference?
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To send a shipment with promptness.
To send an important official message sent by a diplomat or military officer with promptness.
To send a journalist to a place in order to report
*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times
, passage=Scores of foreign journalists have been dispatched to Seoul to report on the growing tensions between the two Koreas and the possibility of war.}}
To hurry.
To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
* Shakespeare
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
To rid; to free.
* Udall
(obsolete) To deprive.
To destroy quickly and efficiently.
(computing) To pass on for further processing, especially via a dispatch table (often with to ).
* 2004 , Peter Gutmann, Cryptographic Security Architecture: Design and Verification (page 102)
A message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The act of doing something quickly.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist), title=
, passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
A mission by an emergency response service, typically attend to an emergency in the field.
(obsolete) A dismissal.
(senseid)An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
(senseid)The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
An oracular answer.
(liturgics ) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
(liturgics ) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title=
"No compound of this earthly ball
Is like another, all in all." * 1874 , , Sensation and Intuition , p. 17. *: There seems a vast psychological interval between an emotional response to the action of some grateful stimulus and the highly complex intellectual and emotional development implied in a distinct appreciation of objective beauty.
As nouns the difference between dispatch and response
is that dispatch is a message sent quickly, as a shipment, a prompt settlement of a business, or an important official message sent by a diplomat, or military officer while response is (senseid)an answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.As a verb dispatch
is to send a shipment with promptness.dispatch
English
(wikipedia dispatch)Alternative forms
* despatch (UK, Australia)Verb
citation
- Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we / The business we have talked of.
- [The] harvest men almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.
- I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
- These handlers perform any additional checking and processing that may be necessary before and after a message is dispatched to an object. In addition, some message types are handled internally by the kernel
Synonyms
* destroy * kill * make haste * sendDerived terms
* dispatch tableHyponyms
* double dispatch * multiple dispatch * single dispatchNoun
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The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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Derived terms
* dispatcher * dispatch case * dispatch tableresponse
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Noun
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Quotations
* 1338 , , Middle English Chronicle *: What was his respons written, I ne sauh no herd. * 1842 , , The Two Voices *: Then did my response clearer fall:"No compound of this earthly ball
Is like another, all in all." * 1874 , , Sensation and Intuition , p. 17. *: There seems a vast psychological interval between an emotional response to the action of some grateful stimulus and the highly complex intellectual and emotional development implied in a distinct appreciation of objective beauty.